{"id":"Motosoto","title":"Motosoto License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://opensource.org/license/Motosoto","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The Motosoto Open Source License is the Jabber Open Source License, itself a Mozilla Public License 1.1 derivative, with Dutch law and a Dutch forum. It carries the file-level reciprocity of the Mozilla text: the Modifications you distribute stay under this licence and their source must remain available. The record follows MPL-1.1. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Software alone, following MPL-1.1, the parent text, and the two Eclipse records of this family. The licence covers Covered Code and Modifications, which is software.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 1(a) grants the right to \"Use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute Licensed Product or portions thereof (including Modifications as hereinafter defined), in both Source Code or as an executable program\", so dalicc:sublicense is a permission, and 1(c) and 2(b) grant patent licences, so dalicc:patentGrant is one. dalicc:chargeDistributionFee is permitted; dalicc:chargeLicenseFee is not written, because the only sentence that bars charging for the Source Code stands in the preamble, which the text excludes from the licence.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense, because section 4(a) says Modifications \"may be distributed only under the terms of this License or a future version of this License released under Section 7\"; dalicc:promote, from section 3, \"No right is granted to the trademarks of Licensor or any Contributor even if such marks are included in the Licensed Product\", and from section 7(d); and dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination from section 9(b).","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:ChangeLicense","description":"Sections 4(f) and 4(g) let You distribute an executable version, and a Derivative Work, under a licence of your choice provided the requirements of this licence are met for the Licensed Product itself. That is dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty, but it cannot stand beside the prohibition that section 4(a) requires for the Modifications, and the MPL-1.1 record takes the same decision. Both clauses are quoted.","action":"proposed"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Section 4(a) governs the Modifications by this licence and requires a copy of the licence with every copy (cc:ShareAlike, cc:Notice); 4(b) requires the Source Code of the Licensed Product and of any Modifications to be made available (cc:SourceCode); 4(c) requires a file documenting the additions, changes and deletions with their dates and a prominent statement of derivation (dalicc:modificationNotice, cc:Attribution); 4(e) requires the Exhibit A notice in each file (cc:Notice). The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because the reciprocity reaches the files that carry the Licensed Product and not the whole product.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance","description":"Section 8 is quoted into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, section 10 into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the warranty offer of section 4(e) into dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance. dalicc:additionalClauses carries sections 3, 4(d), 4(f), 4(g), 5, 7(d), 9 and 13.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"Section 13 states: \"This License shall be governed by Dutch law provisions.\" The record keeps cc:jurisdiction dalicc:worldwide and quotes the clause, the choice this review group makes for every governing-law clause; bpicounty:Netherlands is available if the association would rather read a choice of law as a jurisdiction.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The LEGAL file of section 4(d) could carry dalicc:includeNoticeFile, but MPL-1.1 quotes it and this record follows. The automatic termination with a thirty day cure period in section 9(a) has no property; proposed dalicc:terminatesOnBreach with a companion for the cure period.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"family","description":"Motosoto and CUA-OPL-1.0 are both Mozilla Public License 1.1 derivatives and carry the same model; they differ in the steward, the governing law and the wording of the notice. Section 7(a) of this text says so itself: \"The Motosoto Open Source License is derived from the Jabber Open Source License. All changes are related to applicable law and the location of court.\"","action":"none"}],"family":"Eclipse, Common Public and Lucent","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text of Motosoto and checked against the URL in cc:legalcode. The published text carries two typographic slips, a space inside the word Licensor in section 7(c) and inside the word resellers in section 9(d); neither sentence is quoted in this record. The preamble, which the text itself says is not part of the licence, is not modelled."}